Chris Stapleton Reacts to Making People Cry During Super Bowl National Anthem

Maddie Ellis is a weekend editor at TODAY Digital.

Chris Stapleton may have won eight Grammys since his debut in 2015, but that didn't prevent him from feeling 'terrified' before singing the national anthem at the 2023 Super Bowl. 'The national anthem’s a hard one for any singer, I don’t care who you are,' Stapleton told Willie Geist on the Oct. 29 edition of Sunday Sitdown.

Many fans pointed to Stapleton's voice as one of the reasons why his national anthem performance was so poignant. Stapleton says through his life he 'always sang,' but at times, he tried to emulate the sound of other musicians, like Vince Gill. 'I spent a lot of time trying to be other people,' he said. 'Like, I love Vince Gill. I tried so hard to be like Vince Gill and sound like Vince Gill. There’s lots of demo recordings of me, like, wishing I was Vince Gill.

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